Chapter 9: Kitana

Moves List

Fan Toss

↓ → [1]

Upraise

← ← [2]

Cutting Fan

↓ → [2]

Square Boost

↓ ← [1]

Pretty Kick

↓ ← [3]

Fake Out Kick

↓ ← [4]

Fight 34: Smoke & Johnny Cage.

You're beginning with a handicap match, which doesn't sound very fun. Luckily, Johnny Cage and Smoke both seem to have concussions, because they fight to almost zero effectiveness. Sure, they'll throw the occasional attack now and then, and you'll have to watch out for X-Ray attacks, but they generally seem content to turtle and get smacked around but the lovely Kitana (and really, who wouldn't?). Use the match as an extended training session so you get used to Kitana's moves and combos, especially [1] [1] [2] and [2] [1] [2], which you'll use a bit more as we go along. Take note that Kitana's jump-in with [2] has much less range than male characters, so if you jump-in at all, you'll probably need to do so with [3] or [4].

Fight 35: Jade

If Smoke and Johnny Cage were fighting with concussions, then Jade is fighting with a lobotomy. She basically has no idea where the Block button is and doesn't bother trying to counter what you do, so get in her face and pound away. She'll crumble very quickly. As always, when her X-Ray is charged, you might want to get airborne in case she tries it (it's a running grab, similar to Jax's), but otherwise you can be overly aggressive and lay her out.

Fight 36: Mileena

This is the first time you see Mileena, and you see... well, quite a bit of her, actually. She's pretty quick on her feet and, in Round 1, will occasionally teleport around just to confuse you, but she doesn't teleport incessantly like Scorpion, Smoke, or Cyrax does. The best way to deal with her is to continually out-jump and out-run her. Don't think: just jump around like an over-caffeinated monkey, and fling your fans as rapidly as possible. Mileena's X-Ray attack is a grab, so once she's got it charged, stay airborne and continually jump away from her until she burns it.

In Round 2, she steps up her game a bit and will probably start teleporting around a lot more. You can try turtling and then countering when her teleport fails, but that only works so long: Mileena will see you doing it, then start doing rolls and such to break up your blocks. Still, you can't really go wrong with blocks, followed up with either Fan Tosses or, if she teleports around a little too much, Square Boosts to make her disrupted.

Fight 37: Shang Tsung

Shang Tsung is no joke here because he's got plenty of anti-air attacks. If you fight him the exact same way you just fought Mileena, then he'll completely destroy you. Stay grounded and use Fan Tosses and simple combos to keep him hurt. If he transforms into you, use Square Boosts to counter your clone's air attacks. Shang Tsung won't turn into anyone else for this fight, so you only need to worry about his fireballs and combos.